Isometries of the Toeplitz matrix algebra

Publication date 17 November 2015

Abstract: We study the structure of isometries defined on the algebra

m a t h c a l A

of upper-triangular Toeplitz matrices. Our first result is that a continuous multiplicative isometry

m a t h c a l A o M_{n}

must be of the form either

A m a p s t o U A U^{*}

or

A m a p s t o U o v e r l i n e A U^{*}

, where

o v e r l i n e A

is the complex conjugation and

U

is a unitary matrix. In our second result we use a range of ideas in operator theory and linear algebra to show that every linear isometry

m a t h c a l A o M_{n} (m a t h b b C)

is of the form

A m a p s t o U A V

where

U

and

V

are two unitary matrices. This implies, in particular, that every such an isometry is a complete isometry and that a unital linear isometry

m a t h c a l A o M_{n} (m a t h b b C)

is necessarily an algebra homomorphism.

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